Radio-Activity

A concept album exploring themes of broadcast communications, Radio-Activity marked Kraftwerk's return to more obtuse territory, extensively utilising static, oscillators, and even Cage-like moments of silence to approximate the sense of radio transmission; a pivotal record in the group's continuing development, the title track -- the first they ever recorded in English -- is their most fully realised electro-pop effort to date, while "The Voice of Energy" precipitates the robot voice so crucial to their subsequent work.

1        Geiger Counter    1:08
2        Radioactivity    6:41
3        Radioland    5:51
4        Airwaves    4:40
5        Intermission    0:39
6        News    1:17
7        The Voice Of Energy    0:55
8        Antenna    3:42
9        Radio Stars    3:34
10        Uranium    1:27
11        Transistor    2:14
12        Ohm Sweet Ohm    5:40